Assessing Measurement Properties of Two Single-item General Health Measures
Quality of Life ResearchPublished 8 February 2006
Karen B. DeSalvo, William Fisher, Ky Tran, Nicole Bloser, William Merrill, John Peabody
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The authors' single-item, GSRH questions demonstrated good reproducibility, reliability, and strong concurrent and discriminant scale performance with an established health status measure.
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Our single-item, GSRH questions demonstrated good reproducibility, reliability, and strong concurrent and discriminant scale performance with an established health status measure.
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